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Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall. Area has been condemned and will be torn down shortly to make space for the new Union Railroad station. Average rent is eight dollars

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall. Area ...

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El Monte federal subsistence housing. Three-room house. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent applied on purchase. Father: carpenter. California

El Monte federal subsistence housing. Three-room house. Seventeen doll...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase of three-room house. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Seventeen dollars and seventy...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four in family. Three-room house, seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase. Father's occupation: carpenter. Earns seventy dollars a month. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four in family. Three-room ho...

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New barn which rehabilitation built with loan of four hundred and fifty dollars. Old barn in background. Ada County, Idaho
A black and white photo of a man on a tractor spraying water, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man on a tractor spraying water, New Jers...

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An electric pump, one of the newest type water pumps in Arkansas. Rice farming business near Harrisburg. This farm figures expenses of sixty dollars a day, covering everything from electricity to labor, from the day of tilling the soil until the reaping of the rice

An electric pump, one of the newest type water pumps in Arkansas. Rice...

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El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, each with three quarters of an acre land, all occupied. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum

El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, each with ...

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Barn on J.E. Herbrandson farm near Estherville, Iowa. Owner-operated. This farm is under heavy mortgage. It was bought originally at two hundred dollars per acre in fall of 1919. Pressure to keep up payments has resulted in general disrepair. Payments made up to April, 1936. Owner had to sell this year's crop to make payment. He is one year behind because of poor crops and high interest

Barn on J.E. Herbrandson farm near Estherville, Iowa. Owner-operated. ...

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San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied, each with nearly an acre of ground. Average income eight hundred dollars yearly. California

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied...

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San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes all occupied, each with nearly an acre land. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes all occupied,...

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San Fernando Federal Subsistence Homesteads. Forty homes, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income eight hundred dollars per annum. All of the homes are occupied

San Fernando Federal Subsistence Homesteads. Forty homes, each with th...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes. All occupied, each with nearly an acre of ground. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes. All occupi...

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El Monte federal subsistence housing. 100 homes all occupied. Each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California.

El Monte federal subsistence housing. 100 homes all occupied. Each wit...

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Winter fuel supply on Edgar Allen farm. They hauled old stumps from highway construction, being too poor to buy fuel. This family is being helped by Resettlement Administration, one hundred sixty acres, two-fifths crop, two hundred dollars rent. Allen has had poor crops and has been ill with bronchitis. Near Milford, Iowa

Winter fuel supply on Edgar Allen farm. They hauled old stumps from hi...

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Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. Ineligible for WPA  (Works Progress Administration), rated as totally disabled. As a state charge under Oklahoma relief standards, the family were told the maximum relief would be seven dollars every two weeks. They lost their home, their furniture, took to the road a year ago and when the photographs were made they were found to be without money, shelter, and without food for the four children

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the r...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys, aged one to fourteen. Father is conductor (streetcar), one hundred dollars monthly. Pays sixteen dollars and twenty cents a month rent on purchase. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in ...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. 100 homes. All occupied, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. 100 homes. All occupied, each...

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El Monte federal homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte federal homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with nea...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupi...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupi...

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"Bryan" barn on rural resettlement farm unit in Irwinville Farms, Georgia.  This barn, designed and built under supervision of W.P. Bryan, project manager, cost one hundred forty-five dollars. This compared with the cost of three hundred fifty dollars of Rural Resettlement Administration-specified barn

"Bryan" barn on rural resettlement farm unit in Irwinville Farms, Geor...

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Shack in "Little Oklahoma." Lots 50 x 150, cost one hundred and twenty to two hundred dollars. Bought on hope and sold on promises. No work since last fall. A few get relief and "welfare," but they say they are not eligible in California

Shack in "Little Oklahoma." Lots 50 x 150, cost one hundred and twenty...

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Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall. Areas have been condemned and will be torn down shortly to make space for the new Union Railroad station. Average rental eight dollars. Some of the houses have plumbing

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall. Areas...

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Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. Ineligible for WPA (Works Progress Administration), rated as totally disabled. As a state charge under Oklahoma relief standards, the family were told the maximum relief would be seven dollars every two weeks. They lost their home, their furniture,

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relie...

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Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and it was only after they had wired back to Arkansas to borrow fifty dollars cash to show at the border that they were permitted to enter

Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state ...

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A black and white photo of a tractor plowing a field, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a tractor plowing a field, New Jersey. Farm...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Luke Weldon, small farmer, and his son using ancient Buick (transformed by cutting down the chassis) as improvised tractor. Automobile bought in second hand car lot. Cost fifteen dollars. New Bridgeton, New Jersey

Luke Weldon, small farmer, and his son using ancient Buick (transforme...

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San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty occupied homes, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty occupied homes, eac...

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Housing. Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. Rent eight dollars to twelve dollars monthly

Housing. Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. Rent eigh...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Two-bedroom house, three in family. Girl eleven. Father truck driver. Earns ninety-five dollars monthly, pays fifteen dollars and twenty cents rent to apply on purchase. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Two-bedroom house, three in f...

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Two men working on a tractor in a field, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

Two men working on a tractor in a field, New Jersey. Farm Security Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Background photo for Hightstown project. The present home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Solomon and family, 133 Avenue D, New York City. This family is included in the first unit of thirty-five families to be resettled at Hightstown in July, 1936. For four very small rooms in tenement they pay eighteen dollars monthly

Background photo for Hightstown project. The present home of Mr. and M...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th-century, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Consumers, near Price, Utah. Company housing. Rent approximately eight dollars monthly in Utah coal town

Consumers, near Price, Utah. Company housing. Rent approximately eight...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with three quarters of an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, e...

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Housing. City of Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. Rent eight dollars monthly

Housing. City of Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. R...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads  Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys ages one to fourteen, California. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars a month. Pays sixteen dollars and twenty cents a month rent to apply on purchase

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in ...

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Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California. Average rental is eight dollars. Some houses have plumbing. See card 1799-C for detailed information

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California. Average rental is eight do...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys ages one to fourteen, California. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars a month. Pays sixteen dollars and twenty cents a month rent to apply on purchase

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in f...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys, aged one to fourteen. Father is conductor (streetcar), one hundred dollars monthly. Pays sixteen dollars and twenty cents a month rent on purchase. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in ...

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Coorperative sugarcane processing plant taken from Mississippi River levee costing approximately one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. Growing 2819 cane in foreground. Capacity is one thousand tons per day. Serves territory in twenty mile radius. Works October through December. St. Charles Parish, Louisiana

Coorperative sugarcane processing plant taken from Mississippi River l...

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Edgar Allen, wife, and children. They are tenants of private party on one hundred sixty acre farm near Milford, Iowa. Crop share lease, two-fifths of all crops and two hundred dollars rent. This is an extreme case of poverty in northwest Iowa. Children are very smart and seemingly very happy

Edgar Allen, wife, and children. They are tenants of private party on ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with three quarters of an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, e...

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El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with nearly an acre of land. Average family income eight hundred dollars per annum

El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupi...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income eight hundred dollars per annum

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupi...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Street scene in the mining settlement of Zookspur, Iowa, where part of the occupants of the Granger Homestead formerly lived. Each pump services four houses. Rent four dollars per month
San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied, each with nearly an acre of ground. Average income eight hundred dollars yearly. California

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Three-room house seventy dollars and seventy cents monthly. Rent to apply on purchase. Four in family. Father, carpenter, earns seventy dollars monthly. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Three-room house seventy doll...

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Sharecropper. Receives five dollars a month "furnish" from the landowner. Macon County, Georgia

Sharecropper. Receives five dollars a month "furnish" from the landown...

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Slums of East El Centro, California. Typical of housing and sanitary conditions of Mexican field workers of the Imperial Valley. The houses rent for eight dollars a month

Slums of East El Centro, California. Typical of housing and sanitary c...

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Henry Lotz closing the gate to the barns at the Midway City Dairy Association, near Santa Ana. Orange County, California. Seven families obtained a loan of seven thousand eight hundred fifty dollars from the Resettlement Administration payable in installments over a period of five years and and started a cooperative. From their earnings and wages they have met every payment when due. Henry Lotz says "This Resettlement loan, it's a future to us from the bidding platform for old age labor"

Henry Lotz closing the gate to the barns at the Midway City Dairy Asso...

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John Today, an old miner now receiving six dollars and sixty-five cents a month on relief. He is a single shacker in Iron County, Michigan

John Today, an old miner now receiving six dollars and sixty-five cent...

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Sharecropper's child whose father receives five dollars a month "furnish" from the landowners. Macon County, Georgia

Sharecropper's child whose father receives five dollars a month "furni...

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Slums of East El Centro, California. Housing for Mexican field workers. They rent for eight dollars a month. Imperial Valley

Slums of East El Centro, California. Housing for Mexican field workers...

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Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man with a bucket. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man with a bucket. Great De...

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Autoworkers' houses. These houses rent for twenty-five to thirty dollars and have stoves, but water is drawn from a commercial well. Flint, Michigan

Autoworkers' houses. These houses rent for twenty-five to thirty dolla...

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Man salvaging coal; they receive ten cents per hundred pound sack or two dollars a ton, one man can make from ten to twenty sacks a day, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania

Man salvaging coal; they receive ten cents per hundred pound sack or t...

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Mrs. Hale and her oldest son in front of their home near Black River Falls, Wisconsin. This farm house was built with a total expenditure of three dollars in money

Mrs. Hale and her oldest son in front of their home near Black River F...

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Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man sitting on top of a hill. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man sitting on top of a hil...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain pass, summit, rocks, mountains, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Field worker irrigating alfalfa and barley fields. The field produces eleven cuttings of alfalfa a year, yields nine to ten tons to the acre; sold for twenty-two dollars per ton in 1936. Near Indio, Coachella Valley, California

Field worker irrigating alfalfa and barley fields. The field produces ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pennsylvania photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Pennsylvania photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of Wa...

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Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting b...

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Housing. Richmond, Virginia. Twelve dollars a month for three rooms

Housing. Richmond, Virginia. Twelve dollars a month for three rooms

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Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family was on relief. With a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred and eighty dollars, they were able to purchase and install an irrigating pump for the vineyard, a team, and the balance gave them subsistence and operating expenses for the first grape season

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family w...

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Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family was on relief. With a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred and eighty dollars, they were able to purchase and install an irrigating pump for the vineyard, a team, and the balance gave them subsistence and operating expenses for the first grape season. This house which the family has just finished building is made of adobe bricks, made from clay on the farm. The cash cost in building the house was about six hundred dollars

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family w...

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Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such homes have been completed and are occupied on a tract adjoining the Arvin Migratory Labor Camp. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes electricity and water

Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such hom...

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Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes gas and electricity. Shafter migrant camp, California

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administr...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting b...

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House at La Forge project, Missouri. A five-room house, this will cost approximately one thousand dollars

House at La Forge project, Missouri. A five-room house, this will cost...

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"Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "Most of the people here have farmed, now they're on Work Projects Administration at twenty-three dollars and ten cents a month. Their hold to this country used to be timber work, but that's cut out"

"Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "Most...

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A black and white photo of an old building, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of an old building, West Virginia. Farm Securi...

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Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family was on relief. With a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred and eighty dollars, they were able to purchase and install an irrigating pump for the vineyard, a team, and the balance gave them subsistence and operating expenses for the first grape season. This house which the family has just finished building is made of adobe bricks, made from clay on the farm. The cash cost in building the house was about six hundred dollars

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family w...

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A black and white photo of a stop sign, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a stop sign, West Virginia. Farm Security A...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such homes have been completed and are occupied on a tract adjoining the Arvin Migratory Labor Camp. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes electricity and water

Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such hom...

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Near Manteca, California. Formerly rehabilitation clients. Now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments. Family labor harvesting milo maize. Average loan for purchase of farm and improvements in San Joaquin County is seven thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars

Near Manteca, California. Formerly rehabilitation clients. Now operati...

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Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months now on Works Progress Administration (WPA), receives fifty-five dollars a month. No house available in nearest town under twenty dollars a month

Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months no...

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Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This farm couple have been assisted to independence. In Feburary 1936 they rented a neglected farm of forty acres planted in grapes. They had no equipment, no stock, no seed, no money. Farm Security Administration (FSA) granted a loan of one thousand two hundred and sixty one dollars to cover these items, and four months subsistence for the family. Now November 1938, they are reestablished on a successful diversified farm, with a cash crop provided by vineyard, cows, hogs, and pigs

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This farm couple have...

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A couple of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Secur...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. They will sell this year's crop for about nine hundred dollars, of which they receive one-half

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden lea...

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This family from Arkansas had one thousand dollras when they arrived in California. There are eleven children in family. They bought a forty acre piece of land on which they still owe one thousand dollars. A Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan bought them dairy cows, an irrigation plant, and seed for irrigated pasture lands. Note large vegetable garden and small house. Tulare County, California

This family from Arkansas had one thousand dollras when they arrived i...

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Near Manteca, California. Formerly rehabilitation client harvesting milo maize. Now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments. Average loan for purchase of farm and improvements in San Joaquin County is seven thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars

Near Manteca, California. Formerly rehabilitation client harvesting mi...

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Former coal miner, worked twelve years for Chaplin Coal Company as hand loader. He and several others complained to company about conditions not being up to NRA (National Recovery Administration) standards. All lost jobs, he is now on WPA (Works Progress Administration) at thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents per month, Scotts Run, West Virginia

Former coal miner, worked twelve years for Chaplin Coal Company as han...

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A black and white photo of a man and a child, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man and a child, West Virginia. Farm Secu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such homes have been completed and are occupied on a tract adjoining the Arvin Migratory Labor Camp. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes electricity and water

Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such hom...

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An old black and white photo of two men and a woman, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old black and white photo of two men and a woman, West Virginia. Fa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man and two children, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man and two children, West Virginia. Farm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months now on Works Progress Administration (WPA), receives fifty-five dollars a month. No house available in nearest town under twenty dollars a month

Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months no...

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Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. They will sell this year's crop for about nine hundred dollars, of which they receive one-half

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden lea...

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Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. They will sell this year's crop for about nine hundred dollars, of which they receive one-half

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden lea...

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Home on "Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. "I was offered twenty dollars for that house. I pay six dollars rent a year, and have some chickens and a garden"

Home on "Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. "I was offered twenty...

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This farm of twelve acres operated as a prune ranch. Was a financial failure. Under farm plan devised by Farm Security Administration rehabilitation supervisor and a loan of one thousand dollars, it now provides steady income for the owners. Tulare County, California

This farm of twelve acres operated as a prune ranch. Was a financial f...

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Rehabilitated small farmer in field of milo maize, Tulare County, California. This family has been granted an Farm Security Administration loan of thirteen hundred dollars after struggling for eleven years on sixteen acres of poor land

Rehabilitated small farmer in field of milo maize, Tulare County, Cali...

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The coal company also offers insurance to workers covering accidents anywhere except in the mines for five dollars per month. Most miners signed up for it. If killed or hurt even after working for that company for twenty years, they get nothing. Purseglove, West Virginia

The coal company also offers insurance to workers covering accidents a...

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Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars per month. Husband also works about ten days a month outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two, three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished."

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They b...

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Home of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a FSA (Farm Security Administration) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars a month. Husband also works about ten days a month on odd jobs outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two. Three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished."

Home of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California. They b...

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Former coal miner, worked twelve years for Chaplin Coal Company as hand coal loader. He and several others complained to company about conditions not being up to NRA (National Recovery Administration) standards. All lost jobs. He's now on WPA (Works Progress Administration) at thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents per month. Scotts Run, West Virginia

Former coal miner, worked twelve years for Chaplin Coal Company as han...

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Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where the Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes gas and electricity. Shafter migrant camp, California

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where the Farm Security Admin...

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Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This family had been on relief. They are now re-established on a small farm, where their cash outlay for food is about two dollars and fifty cents a week for a family of seven

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This family had been ...

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Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting b...

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Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars per month. Husband also works about ten days a month outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two, three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished."

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They b...

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